Public artwork by Michael Arcega, Auspicious Clouds | Heavy Fog, 2018, San Francisco. The image illustrates a key later body of work in Michael Arcega's career in the 2010s, when he created several commissioned public sculptural artworks exploring cultural markers, cross-cultural exchange, and sociopolitical dynamics and imbalances. The image depicts one of a series of colorful cloud-motif benches that he created to be placed throughout San Francisco's the Chinatown neighborhood. This works was and is publicly exhibited and discussed in major art journals and daily press publications.

Artist Michael Arcega. Copyright held by the artist.

Michael Arcega

Entire artwork

Yes

The image serves an informational and educational purpose as the primary means of illustrating a key later body of work in Michael Arcega's career in the 2010s: his commissioned public sculptural artworks. These works explore cross-cultural exchange, sociopolitical dynamics and imbalances, and site-specific cultural markers embedded in objects, food, architecture, visual lexicons, or vernacular practices and languages. These permanent works have been commissioned by the San Francisco Arts Commission and city of Berkeley and often employ bright colors and nature-inspired motifs. Because the article is about an artist and his work, the omission of the image would significantly limit a reader's understanding and ability to understand this later stage and body of work, which brought Arcega continuing recognition through public presentation and coverage by major critics and publications. Arcega's work of this type and this series is discussed in the article and by critics cited in the article.

There is no free equivalent of this or any other of this series by Michael Arcega, so the image cannot be replaced by a free image.

The image will not affect the value of the original work or limit the copyright holder's rights or ability to distribute the original due to its low resolution and the general workings of the art market, which values the actual work of art. Because of the low resolution, illegal copies could not be made.